Adviser, Resource Monitoring and National Spending Assessments

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UNAIDS is an innovative United Nations partnership that leads and inspires the world in achieving universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support. UNAIDS' Cosponsors include UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP, UNDP, UNFPA, UNODC, UN Women, ILO, UNESCO, WHO and the World Bank. Visit the UNAIDS Web site at www.unaids.org Vacancy No.: UNAIDS/23/FT1

Title: Adviser, Resource Monitoring and National Spending Assessments

Grade: P4

Contract type: Fixed-term Appointment

Duration of contract: 2 years

Date: 10 January 2023

Application Deadline: 31 January 2023 Currently accepting applications

Organization unit: AI UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (AI) Equitable Financing Department (EQF)/ Policy, Advocacy and Knowledge Branch (PAK)

Duty station: Geneva Switzerland About UNAIDS: Serving Communities and Countries to End Inequalities and AIDS We, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, lead the global effort to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. By placing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to reduction of inequalities at the heart of our work, we lead the global response to AIDS by: (i) maximizing equitable and equal access to HIV services, (ii) breaking down barriers to achieving HIV outcomes, and (iii) integrating efficient HIV responses into wider health and protection systems. We are committed to creating an equal, safe and empowering workplace culture where all people in all their diversity thrive. We live our values of Commitment to the AIDS Response, Integrity and Respect for Diversity. MANDATE OF THE DEPARTMENT: The Equitable Financing Practice delivers on the UNAIDS Secretariat's goals to identify and promote strategies to expand the financing options of the HIV response and its integration in health systems and as a building block of pandemic preparedness, with clear inequalities lens. It does so by systematizing knowledge, developing policy, and building in-house and collaborative capacities on resource allocation, efficiency, equity, transition planning, community response and user fees. It also explores new and additional sources of revenue and international finance for countries, regions, and globally, including tax and domestic revenues, debt and innovative sources of international and private finance. Access to medicines, fair pricing, and generic and local production capacity are the third pillar of the portfolio of the practice. Finally, the team also tracks HIV financing resources and provides a range of analytical products that help understand and inform actions to reduce inequalities, including gender, health, wealth and income inequalities, and integrate HIV financing within the wider international financing system. The challenging economic and financial context specifically for low and low-middle income countries under which the world will live until at least 2025, make the work on HIV, health, and pandemic financing more urgent to ensure UNAIDS is able to serve key populations and PLHIV. Developing advocacy strategies at the country, regional and global levels to expand financing and strengthen its efficiency will need close collaboration with RSTs and UCOs, as well as cosponsors and key international partners, as well as Governments, and Civil society actors. Main tasks and Responsibilities of the Position: Reporting to the Senior Advisor (Resource tracking), the Advisor, Resource Monitoring, and National Spending Assessments, facilitates the timely and efficient tracking of HIV resource flows at the national/sub-national level between institutional units, from sources through schemes, from purchasing agents to providers, from service provision to end-users (beneficiaries), that help inform program planning, decision making and advocacy efforts for sustaining and increasing HIV investments and expenditures at the national level.

NATIONAL-LEVEL RESOURCE TRACKING

Develop and evolve the strategic vision for HIV/Health Resource tracking at the national level. Support the development of approaches, guidance, tools, metrics, and indicators for resource tracking at the national level, build systems and processes to enhance national capacities in conducting resource tracking assessments National AIDS Spending Assessments (NASA) or similar instruments including data collection, analysis, and dissemination of strategic information on resource tracking across stakeholders. Manage the operational processes at UNAIDS to support countries to quality assure outputs from national expenditure assessments/resource tracking, develop the capacity building of national focal points, liaise with development partners and national governments to facilitate the implementation of NASA (or similar instruments) in countries. In collaboration with countries, develop a data repository that can be leveraged for national and global use cases of resource tracking data; manage the update of UNAIDS online portals with the latest available NASA reports. Develop concrete examples of practical uses of data to advocate for enhanced use of NASA (or similar instruments) in countries in collaboration with stakeholders as necessary.

OTHER RESOURCE-TRACKING DUTIES

Develop strategies to leverage years of best practices, systems, and processes observed in the UNAIDS framework of National AIDS Spending Assessments (NASA), scale these processes for the next generation of resource tracking needs in the realm of Global Health, to enhance the conduct of joint efforts on health resource tracking from different global stakeholders, and improved timeliness of expenditure data from NASA or other resource tracking/monitoring instruments. Develop approaches for community-based/led resource tracking and bring up lessons and common threads. Support the portfolio of Resource Tracking with the monitoring of financial indicators reported by low-and-middle-income countries to the Global AIDS Monitoring. Collaborate with other staff members at UNAIDS and other development partners to provide insights from AIDS spending assessment to support programme activities at the national level such as the development of National strategic plans, investment cases, efficiency analysis, resource alignment, and crosswalk between NASA and other resource alignment exercises, etc. Perform other related duties as assigned, including replacing and backstopping for others. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS Education: Essential: Master's degree in economics or business administration, or public health. For internal candidates, a first university degree and nine (9) years of relevant work experience will be considered as equivalent. Competencies: UNAIDS Values: Commitment to the AIDS response Integrity Respect for diversity

Core competencies: Working in Teams Communication with Impact Applying Expertise Delivering Results Driving Change and Innovation Being Accountable

Managerial competencies: Vision and strategic thinking Leading Teams Building Relationships and Networks Developing and Empowering Others Managing Performance and Resources Vision and Strategic Thinking Exercising Sound Judgement Experience: Essential; At least seven years of demonstrated experience in monitoring, evaluation, and strategic analysis of information on AIDS financing, economics, and HIV commodities as related to the AIDS epidemic at the national level. Experience in implementing National AIDS Spending Assessments or Systems of Health Accounts in more than 5 countries.

Desirable: Experience working with the UN. Languages: Essential: Advanced knowledge of English.

Desirable: Knowledge of another UN official language. Additional Information: Positions at the international professional category within UNAIDS will be subject to the Organization's Mobility Policy. The above-mentioned position is a rotational position and its standard duration of assignment is linked to the ICSC hardship classification of the duty station.

Other similar positions at the same level may be filled from this vacancy notice. Annual salary: (Net of tax) 75,602 USD at single rate Post Adjustment: 81 % of the figure(s) on the left side. This percentage is to be considered as indicative since variations may occur each month either upwards or downwards due to currency exchange rate fluctuations or inflation. - - - - - -

Applicants will be required to take a test. Applicants will be contacted directly if selected for an interview. - - - - - -

Applications from people living with HIV are particularly welcome. Applications from women and from nationals of non- and under-represented member states are particularly encouraged. - - - - - -

Any appointment/extension of appointment is subject to the Staff Regulations and Rules of the World Health Organization (WHO) adjusted, as necessary, to take into account the particular operational needs of UNAIDS, and any subsequent amendments.

Only candidates under serious consideration will be contacted. - - - - - -

Note: The paramount consideration in the appointment, transfer or promotion of staff is the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence and integrity. The medical criterion for recruitment is fitness to work in the particular post. The United Nations HIV/AIDS Personnel Policy clearly stipulates that no staff and/or potential candidates shall be discriminated against on the basis of real or perceived HIV status. HIV infection, in itself, does not constitute lack of fitness to work. There is no obligation to disclose HIV-related personal information. - - - - - -

Online applications are strongly encouraged to enable UNAIDS to store your profile in a permanent database. Please visit UNAIDS's e-Recruitment website at: https://erecruit.unaids.org. The system provides instructions for online application procedures. All applicants are encouraged to apply online as soon as possible after the vacancy has been posted and well before the deadline stated in the vacancy announcement. Currently accepting applications

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